Re: self-made potato driver-1.bin

2002-08-25 Thread pa3gcu
On Monday 26 August 2002 10:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > pa3gcu wrote: > > On Monday 26 August 2002 08:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > --- > > > insmod 8390 > > > insmod wd > > > --- > > > > And because you said mpdporbe 8390 i suspect its an > > 8 bits card as well. I typed

Re: self-made potato driver-1.bin

2002-08-25 Thread Ray Olszewski
Well ... I'm kinda the resident Debian junkie here, but I haven't done a potato install in well over a year, and I've never used an smc-ultra NIC that I can recall. So the advice I can offer is limited. First, why not try installing Woody? Potato is no longer Debian-stable; Woody is, as of abo

Re: self-made potato driver-1.bin

2002-08-25 Thread ichi
pa3gcu wrote: > > On Monday 26 August 2002 08:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > --- > > insmod 8390 > > insmod wd > > --- > > And because you said mpdporbe 8390 i suspect its an > 8 bits card as well. Yup, she's 8 bits. However, even if I ran depmod on my system (which I don't)

Re: self-made potato driver-1.bin

2002-08-25 Thread pa3gcu
On Monday 26 August 2002 08:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michael Gruner wrote: > > It seems not to be possible to get debian potato to work > > with smc-ultra NICs. > > I don't use Debian, but I do have an ISA smc-ultra NIC. > It works fine in BasicLinux when I do: > --- > insmod 8390 >

Re: really hidden hidden files

2002-08-25 Thread Rob
You can also use a DOS, W95 or W98 boot floppy with the attrib command on it. At the prompt type A:\>attrib -shr c:\* ,or already on whatever drive :\>attrib -shr *. You prolly have the DOS kernel, MSDOS.SYS IO.SYS, and COMMAND.COM on there. Altho COMMAND.COM should already show up. Rob: On Sun,

Re: self-made potato driver-1.bin

2002-08-25 Thread ichi
Michael Gruner wrote: > > It seems not to be possible to get debian potato to work > with smc-ultra NICs. I don't use Debian, but I do have an ISA smc-ultra NIC. It works fine in BasicLinux when I do: --- insmod 8390 insmod wd --- Cheers, Steven - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: self-made potato driver-1.bin

2002-08-25 Thread pa3gcu
On Sunday 25 August 2002 19:50, Michael Gruner wrote: > Hello, > > trying to install a debian potato via ftp on a pc with a smc-ultra-card > is driving me crazy :-/. > > It seems not to be possible to get debian potato to work with smc-ultra > NICs. Some times ago i tried to get it installed on a

self-made potato driver-1.bin

2002-08-25 Thread Michael Gruner
Hello, trying to install a debian potato via ftp on a pc with a smc-ultra-card is driving me crazy :-/. It seems not to be possible to get debian potato to work with smc-ultra NICs. Some times ago i tried to get it installed on a P90 with a smc-ultra but had no sucess. Installing SuSE on that p

Re: Can't see my drives

2002-08-25 Thread Arthur Othieno
- Original Message - From: "Ray Olszewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 4:05 PM Subject: Re: Can't see my drives > Selected responses only, below. > > At 08:27 PM 8/24/02 +1200, cr wrote: > >[...] > > > Then see if you

Re: really hidden hidden files

2002-08-25 Thread Heimo Claasen
Had precisely this problem with a win98 unit lately. Solution was simple: Boot with a rudimentary DOS system _floppy_ and use a clean file viewer like Buerg's LIST which can show and delete hidden files. // Heimo Claasen Brussels 2002-08-24 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> ht

Re: Choice of NIST daemon

2002-08-25 Thread Haines Brown
> > I'd like to have my system clock automatically corrected through an > > online connection that remains always up. I gather that xntpd is a > > commonly used daemon to do that for me. > > xntpd is one of several commonly used daemons for doing that. Another > commonly used daemon is called ntp

Re: sudo, SUID and SGID

2002-08-25 Thread lawson_whitney
On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Jim Reimer wrote: > I'm not sure I'm clear as to when I should use sudo, and > when I should use SUID and/or SGID. It looks like I should > use sudo when I want only a limited number of users to > have access to a (normally root) program, and SUID/SGID > when I want to let e

Re: really hidden hidden files

2002-08-25 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Robert. > Hey out there. This is really a Dos/Windows question, but I'm trying > to fix a problem in windows using Linux. We all get to do that on occasion... > Here is the deal. My son trashed the windows 98 installation on our > home PC. So I formatted the Windows partition and started ove

Re: Choice of NIST daemon

2002-08-25 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Haines. > I'd like to have my system clock automatically corrected through an > online connection that remains always up. I gather that xntpd is a > commonly used daemon to do that for me. xntpd is one of several commonly used daemons for doing that. Another commonly used daemon is called ntp